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It would be an innocent-enough question to ask me how I'm celebratingValentine's Day (or Christmas or Easter, for that matter). Every year,you can't help getting used to the build-up immediately…Continue

"Just a thought; African pre-adolescent male circumcision is quite barbaric too, as you may gather from reading Nelson Mandela's description of his own experience with the ritual in 'Long Walk to Freedom'. Every year, there are lots of…"

It would be an innocent-enough question to ask me how I'm celebratingValentine's Day (or Christmas or Easter, for that matter). Every year,you can't help getting used to the build-up immediately after New Yearto this all-important day to express affection for your loved one (ortwo, or seventy, depending on your Jihad aspirations). The stores haveswitched their displays from holly and glowing snowmen to red,heart-shaped helium-filled balloons and bouquets of roses. In theNorthern hemisphere…See More

"I do not see how the origin of oil has any bearing on the existence of God. The grand God of All Creation has been reduced to a puny god of the gaps. However, the elimination of yet another gap will not keep God in his coffin."

"Abiotic oil is a great topic for the entire right, religious or otherwise :D Oil is one of the arguments against YEC, and abiotic oil gives an argument around old oil, and allows oil to be young.
Abiotic oil also opposses the conservation and…"

"I disagree, I don't think this topic sounds anything like creationist non-sense, though it could have done without the mention of creationism and atheism. I felt confused by that, too. But I'm glad someone took the time to talk about an…"

"Thank you for your reply.
I don't use PNAS in very much of my masters research - it doesn't cover the evolutionary biology stuff as well as TREE or some of the others. But I wouldn't expect it to - journal get specific for a reason…"

"Raised Hindu, I was an atheist by the time I was thirteen after learning about evolution. At sixteen, I attended a tent crusade by a fundamentalist preacher who prayed for the sick. I was mesmerised at the supposed healings and the sheer fun and…"

"To feed or not to feed indeed...
Suffice it to say that I came to the conclusion that there couldn't be a god a little over two decades ago when I was about your age. For someone who's been pondering and championing the secular cause for…"

"I think his very sarcastic remark and implication is referring to your tone. It's a tone we've come to expect from creationist trolls on this site.
You ask excessive amounts of rhetorical questions. Many of those have the feel of setting…"

"There's a danger to confusing agendas that may obstruct scientific discovery. There's the left vs. right agenda, the atheist vs. religious one and the green vs. economic one, to name a few. Each inevitably accuses the other of academic…"

"I'm just waiting for the Creation Science Department of one of our many Christian Colleges or Universities to figure out how to "create" more oil so we can ejoy the quality of life our parents and grandparents enjoyed. Maybe they just…"

"No problem. The YECers jump through hoops and grasp at straws to prove their claims and just keep failing. There is evidence throughout many, many different fields of science which refute their claims, not just one."

"Yes, I did. It is not widely known that Toronto is the centre--as opposed to 'center', which this spellcheck prefers--of the known universe and very difficult for us Vancouverites to accept (hehe, thanks for catching that moment of levity…"

"lol, did you just suggest Toronto is the centre of the universe?
"The known universe is certainly not a sphere 6,000 light-years in diameter with our little solar system at its centre...like Toronto.""

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Neeven,
Welcome to Atheist Nexis!
I looked at your profile. I imagine that you have a lot of stories to tell!
One way to get to know people is to join discussion groups, and get involved in some of the forum topics.
There are hundreds of discussion groups. They are what we make of them. Given your background, you might be interested in Conversations in Race, Ethnicity and Culture - or at least have a valuable perspective that comes from experience.

I live in that "other Vancouver", smaller and more provincial, but with a few charms of it's own.